Browsing by Author "Altintop L."

Early ventilatory management at emergency department of a patient with severe Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS)

Doğanay Z.; Bildik F.; Aygün D.; Güven H.; Altintop L.; Yerliyurt M. (2002)

Despite advances in supportive intensive care and mechanical ventilation strategies, the mortality rate of ARDS has remained significant, usually more than 50% especially in sepsis. Early diagnosis and initiating preventive ...

The efficiency of different trauma scoring systems in evaluation of pediatric trauma

Güven H.; Bek Y.; Baydin A.; Altintop L.; Aygün D.; Doğanay Z. (2001)

The aim of this study was to outline the efficiency of different trauma score systems in determining the prognosis of pediatric trauma. In this study, we conducted the analysis of standard forms of 249 children admitted ...

Evaluation of the intoxication patients were admitted in Emergency Unit

Altintop L.; Sunbul M.; Ketenci M.; Pekbay A. (1996)

In this study, 72 intoxication patients who admitted in Emergency Unit of Ondokaz Mayis University Medical Faculty were evaluated. 25 of 72 patients (34.7%) were male and the rest (65.3%) were female with average age 30.1 ...

Gaucher's disease and retinitis pigmentosa: A case report

Kaya N.; Ketenci M.; Kosar A.; Ariturk N.; Akpolat I.; Altintop L.; Kahraman H. (1998)

Gaucher's disease is a rare, chronically progressive, hereditary lipid storage disorder. Retinitis pigmentosa is a retinal dystrophia and there is no evidence in the literature of its link with Gaucher's disease. In our ...

An important ethical and medicolegal issue; projecting the need for medical education about patient rights among the hospital staff

Karakus A.; Selcuk M.Y.; Unal M.; Tontus O.; Altintop L. (Ondokuz Mayis Universitesi, 2015)

The aim of this study was to evaluate the need for medical education about patient rights among hospital staff and in the light of the study findings a curriculum map were designed on this issue. A self-administered ...

In acute organophosphate poisoning, the efficacy of hemoperfusion on clinical status and mortality

Altintop L.; Aygun D.; Sahin H.; Doganay Z.; Guven H.; Bek Y.; Akpolat T. (SAGE Publications Inc., 2005)

The aims of this study were to report experience in patients with organophosphate poisoning (OPP) and to discuss the potential role for hemoperfusion (HP) in the management of severe OPP. At the emergency service of a ...

In response to the letter to the editors [2]

Altintop L. (2007)

[No abstract available]

The incidence of pathologic findings of the cranial computed tomography in patients with minor head trauma and its correlation with age and clinical features

Aygün D.; Güven H.; Incesu L.; Sahin H.; Doganay Z.; Altintop L. (2003)

BACKGROUND: Our objective was to determine the incidence of diagnosing lesions by cranial computed tomography (CT) and to evaluate prospectively whether this incidence correlated with clinical features and age in patients ...

Incidence of peripheral neuropathy in non-alcoholic liver cirrhosis

Kahraman H.; Yalcintas U.; Kaya N.; Onar M.K.; Altintop L.; Cosar A.; Cengiz K. (1996)

Peripheral nerve function may be impaired in chronic liver disease. The incidence of demyelinating neuropathy was reported to be between 20 to 90 percent in various electrophysiologic and histopathologic studies. However ...

Management of brain edema in acute head injury

Aygün D.; Güven H.; Doganay Z.; Altintop L.; Bildik F.; Yerliyurt M.; Sahin H. (2002)

BACKGROUND: We aim was to review the basic concepts and to analyze the current management of cerebral edema following acute head trauma (AHT). METHOD: Cerebral edema should be recognized and treated early and aggressively ...

Neurologic prognosis in anoxic and ischemic encepholoplathies: A case of the persistent vegetative state after cardiac arrest

Aygün D.; Doğanay Z.; Altintop L.; Güven H.; Koşargelir M. (2000)

The age of the patient and the time interval between the cardiac arrest and cardiopulmonary ressusitaion are the most important factors that effect the neurologic prognosis. The neurological complications of cardiac arrest ...